Birth: October-December 1869 Shoreham, Sussex, UK
Father: William Young 1835-1924
Mother: Emma Winchester 1840-1925
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 21 May 1896 St Mary, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, UK
Husband: Albert Edgar Sawyer 1868-1919
Death: July-September 1919 Steyning, West Sussex, UK
Miriam Mildred Sawyer [Geater] 1897-a1929
Birth of Bessie Young in FreeBMD in October-December 1869 in Steyning (2b 274).
In the 1871 census as Bessie Young aged 1, born in Shoreham, and living with her parents (William and Emma), brother (William) and two sisters (Kate and Sarah) in Commercial Terrace, New Shoreham, Sussex.
In the 1881 census as Bessie Young aged 11, born in Shoreham, Sussex, and living with her parents (William and Emma), two brothers (John and William), and three sisters (Alice, Annie and Mercy) at 2 Commercial Terrace, New Shoreham, Sussex.
In the 1891 census as Bessie Young aged 21, born in Shoreham, Sussex, single and a servant living with Alice A A Thorold (aged 77, born in Ireland, widowed and living on her own means), her daughter (Alice M E aged 40, born in Scotland, single and no stated employment), granddaughter (Edith F M aged 21, born in Charlton, Kent, single and no stated emloyment), and two other servants (Elizabeth N Streater aged 34, born in Brighton, Sussex and Rose Cuddington aged 25, born in Maidstone, Kent, both single) at 29 St Aubyns, Hove, Sussex.
Marriage of Bessie Young and Albert Edgar Sawyer in FreeBMD in April-June 1896 in Whitechapel (1c 546).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Bessie Young aged 26, father William Young and Albert Edgar Sawyer aged 26, father Charles Sawyer, on 21 May 1896 at Whitechapel St Mary, Tower Hamlets. "Entry 372 1896 marriage solemized in the Parish Church of the Parish of St Mary Whitechapel in the County of London on 21 May 1896 Bessie Young aged 26, a spinster of 28 Surrey Street, Shoreham, father William Young a seaman, and Albert Edgar Sawyer aged 26, a sadler living at 10 Greenfield Street, father Charles Sawyer (decreased) a pilot, by banns witnessed by George Bruner, Joseph Henry Hahn, and Emily Sawyer."
Her daughter was born in New Cross in 1897.
In the 1901 census as Bessie Sawyer aged 30, born in Shoreham, Sussex, and living with her husband (Albert), daughter (Miriam), and a boarder (Harry Penfold aged 26, born in Herest, Sussex, single and a bricklayer's labourer) at 6 Church Street, New Shoreham, Sussex.
In the 1911 census as Bessie Sawyers aged 40, born in Shoreham, Sussex, married for 15 years, one child still living, and living with her husband (Albert Edgar), daughter (Miriam Mildred), and a boarder (Edgar Charles Street aged 27, born in Shoreham, Sussex, single and a coal merchant) at 11 Church Street, Shoreham By Sea, Sussex.
Death of Bessie Sawyer in FreeBMD in July-September 1919 aged 49 in Steyning (2b 303).
Bessie Young was the second cousin of Ellen, wife of Thomas Paine, my eighth cousin three times removed.
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